Haskell Weekly News: August 9, 2005
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Discussion
Practical Monads. Paul Moore started a [3]discussion about Monads and
resources for learning about them. Quite a few readers responded with
suggestions.
3. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/7964
STRef vs. IORef. Srinivas Nedunuri started a [4]discussion by asking when
to STRef and when to use IORef. Iavor Diatchki posted a helpful
[5]example, and many other helpful answers were posted as well.
4. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/11895
5. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/11901
Parsing Foreign Languages. The The ParsingForeignLanguagesInHaskell wiki
page was the subject of a short [6]discussion on the libraries mailing
list. If you have any further information or would like to join or start a
project to parse a particular language, see the [7]wiki page.
6. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/3572
7. http://www.haskell.org/hawiki/ParsingForeignLanguagesInHaskell
Haskell Toolchain
Cabal was again a hot topic this week. There were discussions about
[8]data directories, [9]running on Windows 98, and [10]package description
fields in general.
8. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/3594
9. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/3575
10. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/3566
Darcs Corner
Darcs in FreshMeat. David Roundy is [11]looking for volunteers to maintain
the Darcs [12]entry at FreshMeat.net. It wouldn't require much time, but
the ability to summarize changes at release time.
11. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.darcs.user/8034
12. http://freshmeat.net/projects/darcs/
Binary files and line endings. Phil Brooke [13]asked how darcs handles
line endings and binary files.
13. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.darcs.user/8017
Uniqueness of patch names. On #darcs this week, a discussion about the
uniqueness of low-level patch names in darcs. The consensus seemed to be
that darcs needs an additional better-than-1-second component to patch
names to eliminate a situation in which collisions can arise.
New Releases
* Simon Marlow announced the [14]release of Haddock version 0.7.
Highlights of this version include improvements for linking across
different packages, bug fixes, collapsable trees in HTML, and support
for new output formats.
* Einar Karttunen has released [15]hsgnutls 0.1, a Haskell binding for
the GnuTLS SSL/TLS library.
* John Goerzen [16]announced the release of a preliminary, but working,
binding to OpenLDAP from Haskell.
14. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/11903
15. http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/ekarttun/hsgnutls/
16. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/11932
Quotes of the Week
"Oh Lord, bless this thy holy IO monad, and use it for thy
purposes that it may smash Java to tiny bits..." (with apologies to monty
python)
If I ever write a GUI library for Haskell, I'm going to call
it pointlesstif.
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